Is this the current British Government’s ‘Gerald Ratner Moment’?
Now and again a commercial, charitable or governmental organisation will make a publicity faux pas. In Government a minister can go ‘off script’ and…
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A sign that the Overton Window is truly shifting fast.
Many Britons of a certain vintage will remember the clothes designer Jeff Banks. Some may have bought his clothes but many others will recall…
Reflections on a defection
So Robert Jenrick is the surprise defection from the Conservatives to Reform. This I must admit is a far more welcome defection to Reform…
Happy New Year 2026
I’d like to take this opportunity to wish all the readers of this blog a very Happy New Year for 2026. It’s fair to…
From Elsewhere: A return to Britain of the 1970’s could be on the cards but in a far far worse way.
Britain’s decline is now so obvious that not only does it attract negative comment from the US government but there are increasingly those, myself…
From Elsewhere: On First World and Third World mindsets.
It’s easy for us in the West to falsely assume that the entire world is like us. It’s easy to assume when you live…
Well done Ms Badenoch. A politician that has started to identify one of the problems we suffer from.
I gave up on the Tories or at least on voting for or supporting the Tories back in 2020. I’d voted Tory in 2019…
A question I never ever wanted to hear my son or any child to have to ask.
On the day of the Islamic atrocity in Sydney, Australia, I went with my wife and son to a building somewhere in the West…
Islamic savagery at Bondi
It is now almost certain that the perpetrators of the horrific attack on a Jewish Chanukah celebration on Australia’s Bondi Beach that killed 16…
From Elsewhere: A new substack which could have a lot of interesting things to say.
I’ve become somewhat of an admirer of the words of Dr Lisa Mckenzie the self-described working class academic. I first became aware of her…
